Fic: Solitude (FFVII, Cloud, Zack, PG)

[icedark_elf]

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Title: Solitude
Author: GW Katrina aka icedark_elf
Beta: forgottenlover
Theme: 23-Solitude for 30_deathfics
Characters: Cloud, Zack
Wordcount: 296
Rating: PG
Warnings: OGC, mentions of character death *coughs*


Solitude

For the longest time, Cloud had been aware of a comforting voice in the back of his mind. It teased him, comforted him, warned him of dangers.

Oh, he didn’t think it was real. Just some delusion his mind had cooked up to help keep him going. He was a SOLDIER, but he must had gone through a bad situation. After all, he was missing some time, after all. A mission gone bad, maybe, or a poor reaction to one of his mako treatments. There had been all kinds of warnings about how, randomly, mako could trigger odd reactions.

Whatever had happened, he figured out easily enough that he didn’t work for Shin-Ra anymore. If he had, he wouldn’t have been underplate, without a single scrap of gil to his name, like he had been.

None of that mattered to the voice. It was a calm, comforting warmth he always had with him.

At least until Sephiroth started to speak to him. After that, the voice got quieter and quieter, drowned out by the siren call of the former general.

Then the situation at the Northern Crater happened. Then Mideel.

It was after he remembered who he really was, who Zack was, that Cloud recognized the voice. Even after everything, Zack had hung around to help him. Cloud didn’t know how, but he knew the man had done it somehow. But that was Zack, giving everything he could for the people he cared about.

After he remembered how Zack had died, Cloud reached for the voice, feeling almost desperate to hear it once again. He reached, searching for the one thing that had kept him going, kept him moving and alive.

All he found was silence.

It was like watching Zack die all over again.

Comments

[tir-synni.livejournal.com]

*whimpers* You would think someone like that must have happened, though: for Zack to go from a voice in Cloud's head to a separate figure in AC, some separation had to occur. Poor Cloud.

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*nods* He was a little upset. At least until he saw Zack again. Then he felt better.

[the-perkygoff.livejournal.com]

*Is punted* Ouch. O_o

I don't think "poor Cloud," even STARTS to cover it.

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*pats*

He wasn't happy at all.

[the-perkygoff.livejournal.com]

*Dryly* One may put it that way.

[kemis.livejournal.com]

*hugs Cloud tight*

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*scritches him* Poor boy needs more happy times.

However, this is a deathfic challenge. No happy for Cloud.

[ladynero.livejournal.com]

*snuggles Cloud*

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*scritches him* He needs snuggles.

[artimusdin.livejournal.com]

I know Tyr's right, but.... but.. *whimper* *cuddles Cloud-n-Zack*

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*scritches* He's a woob.

[mogumogu.livejournal.com]

And then he saw Zack, and Zack had nothing to say that hadn't been said before, and Cloud smiled.